You’re sealioning and you fucking know it. Nobody’s buying your bullshit.

I don’t like the guy’s breathless over-enthusiasm, but NetworkChuck has a video on how to integrate LLM-based voice assistants with HomeAssistant using Whisper and Ollama.

I typically sort by “top six hours” and I’m barely aware of the problem OP is talking about. So yeah, it seems like downvoting works.

Sounds to me like the other effective remedy for you would be changing instances. Downvotes exist for a good reason and disabling them is harmful.

The GPLv2 is not restrictive enough in terms of allowing bad actors to circumvent it with DRM.

Maybe it’s a really low boat.

(Also it’s probably a strange downward angle.)

1. This is an outright fabrication someone made up for laughs ragebait.

FTFY, but otherwise I agree.

I buy TPLink gear, but only because I check to make sure it can be flashed with OpenWRT beforehand. I may not actually do that (my router is running it, but my PoE access points aren’t yet), but I make damn sure I can.

(Also, I almost bought Kasa smart plugs, then checked to see whether they could run ESPHome or Tasmota and picked a different brand instead. You always have to check, every single time!)

Nobody gives a shit about housing in bumfuck nowhere exurbs. It simply does not count because pretending people can be warehoused there when they can’t does not solve the problem.

Quit citing irrelevant bullshit and talk only about housing within commuting distance of downtown Vancouver or Toronto (or in general, urban centers where people actually want to be), because that’s what actually matters.

It def is both financialization and zoning. Restrictive zoning increases the value of housing hence line goes up.

The difference is that financialization is a symptom of the problem, not the cause of it. It is enabled by the imbalance between supply and demand caused by the zoning laws restricting the supply.

Rezoning is framed as increasing supply and affordability, instead of decreasing values of existing homes. When both will happen.

“Increasing affordability” and “decreasing value” are mathematically equivalent statements, so yeah. Obviously.

(In fact, that’s why the problem is so hard to solve: NIMBY homeowners will claim to be all for “housing affordability” in theory, but in reality they absolutely hate it because they benefit from prices being high. Zoning that restricts density is a symptom of society being held hostage by the already-privileged, demanding ever more subsidies for themselves)

You haven’t been keeping up with the changes in the law. There is no such thing as single family zoning inside cities in BC anymore.

The provincial government made it so that essentially any property in a municipality over 5000 people is allowed to have 3 units if it’s under 280 square meters, or 4 units if it’s over 280 square meters.

In other words, they capped supply at a slightly higher level than it was before. Whoop-de-fuckin’-do, it’s still a cap!

(Also, BC policy does fuck-all for Ontario.)

Again, there’s no shortage, there’s plenty of housing available, it’s just that there’s a lot of over-housed people who are hogging properties they don’t reasonably need.

Again, that is factually untrue. You’re so Hell-bent on finding scapegoats you can’t even think rationally.

I argue it is not, because unreasonable desire shouldn’t be part of “housing” conversations.

If every single person wanted a detached house on Robson Street, that’s clearly just stupid and should be ignored.

You’re right that it’s stupid, but that’s what the laws attempt to do! It Is literally illegal to replace single-family houses with denser housing in the vast majority of Toronto, Vancouver, etc. That means everybody who doesn’t fit in those houses is physically displaced to the exurbs, never mind that the increasing demand with no accompanying increase in supply makes prices skyrocket.

I don’t care about your nonsensical attempt to redefine what words mean; that’s objectively a shortage!

Shortages are what restrictive zoning laws are designed to do, and they are working exactly as intended. If you don’t like that outcome, the only sane thing to do is abolish them.

There is also some distribution issues around where those houses are located compared to the desires of where people want to live. If someone has a house in Edmonton, but wants to live in Vancouver in a similar house and can’t afford it, is that a housing shortage in Vancouver? I would argue it is not.

It absolutely is. Houses aren’t fungible; they don’t fucking move! A house in Edmonton is not a substitute for a house in Vancouver!

Housing is not fungible. It doesn’t matter how much supply there is in the middle of nowhere; lack of supply in the places people actually want to live is a shortage.

Also, it has fuck-all to do with financialization and everything to do with restrictive zoning laws that enshrine single-family. Y’all are literally prohibiting building more density; WTF did you think was gonna happen?!

I mean, why not? It’s probably not as if she’s got some other more important future event to heal up for.

(INB4 she un-retires again for 2030.)

In other words, if you’re a contractor and the doordasher’s fee is lower than your hourly rate.

Why so many? Is it a relatively small set of signals multiplied over multiple boilers or something, or is each line really doing something different, or what?

Are modern plants similarly full of wires, or have they streamlined it (e.g. by multiplexing a bunch of signals as packet data on a single networking cable)?

Right, but even taking that into account, how many control signals could the thing possibly need?

If I enumerate every possible signal I can think of that a coal plant might need (boiler temp, fire temp, turbine speed, water flow, fuel hopper door control, etc.), and then arbitrarily multiply by an order of magnitude, my estimate is still lower than the number of wires I see in the pic.

Why does a power plant need that much circuitry in the first place? I get that it’s probably super-old and probably built back when you needed a whole server rack for the equivalent compute of a pocket calculator (and also it’s relatively bulky because it’s a lot of relays for switching high-current stuff), but still, a coal power plant shouldn’t be that complicated, right?

I live in an area that can have high radon levels, but haven’t worried about it too much because my old house has a vented basement/crawlspace that leaks air like a sieve. It’s really with modern construction, that seals houses up tight for energy efficiency, that it becomes a bigger problem.

I think it being an emerging issue may also be part of why it’s not screened for yet.

(It’s also important to keep all this stuff in mind when doing renovations, since they can change the way the building works as a system. Having recently bricked up my crawlspace vents, this post reminds me that I should do a radon test…)